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Les esperamos! As you know, the embajadores are preparing their first 5K! Our schedule has been adjusted to accomplish such an important endeavor. Now we are meeting every Saturday 9AM. Our favorite location: The Pagoda, Patterson Park (Baltimore, MD). Check out the dates in our calendar.

As you, Embajadores de Salud – YO PUEDO are enjoying the summer. And with all the sun and great temperatures we got inspired to prepare our first 5k!

Teresa, Margarita, Raquel, Gabriela…they all mentioned that instead of taking the bus, they walk. “I don’t like being late” says Margarita, “so sometimes I don’t wait for the bus, I just walk”. They walk distances from Ellwood Ave. to the Baltimore Inner Harbor, back and forth! So we talked to them about the 5k or 1M walk. But, 1M for them seems a short walk…so we are preparing our first 5k!

Drew started with simple warm-up, stretching and fast-walk/short jogging. It was a great and inspiring start! Gabriela will bring her three daughters and her husband, who’s also part of the embajadores participants group.

We are so looking forward to this race, a race to a healthy lifestyle, a race to healthier families!

So you thought you need to go to the gym or even to the park to exercise? These pics will prove you are not totally right. And will encourage you to exercise while Spring finally pops up!

Our monthly follow-up meeting at Bayview was a lot of fun, and exercise. Caroline one of our LMSA members and volunteer for the YO PUEDO program developed a series of easy workouts to do indoors. All you need is your body and a chair!

As part of the follow up, we started with a relaxation minute, then medical students checked weight, height and waist of participants, to keep track of their progress. Thank you Caroline for the plan, the trainers Drew and Owen and all volunteers and participants at this meeting!

A different Happy International Women Day with the “Embajadores”.
This has been a busy week for the Embajadores. We started our workout sessions!
On Saturday we had two sessions, morning and afternoon. And both were beautiful and inspiring. Moms, dad(s) and kids in the park. Patterson Park witnessed the particular celebration of the International Women Day with the Embajadores on March 8. Again, the LMSA medical students with their willingness and professionalism, responded to the call for volunteers, guided with the exercise and made the event a blast!
Wednesday the same session near Bayview to accommodate the families’ locations and schedules. Not even the spring rain stopped families to attend!
Drew prepared great material to talk about “El Corazón”. Why it’s important, for obvious reasons it’s important, but now we learned some tips to keep it healthy.

Ready for the next meeting with one voice “YO PUEDO” (I Can) have a healthier lifestyle!
Thank you participants and volunteers for your hard work!

Last Sat. Jan 25th with less than 20F and a light to heavy snow in the morning we started our kick-off event!.

Dr. G. Lopez-Mena, resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview, after an overnight session, was ready to receive volunteers and participants! Drew, medical student at SOM, coordinated other students willing to be part of this big change! Monica, contacted all participants.

8 AM and everyone was ready on their positions.

Student Sight Savers offered their knowledge to provide eyes exam to all participants and give them recommendations and an overview of their eye health.

Drew and G were getting weights and blood pressure to participants.

All volunteers were so smiling and willing to help on anything. And everything was smooth and easy, as it was planned with months of preparation, but without that. I can tell these students will become great doctors!

Participants were so nice and grateful, with that cold and the snow, they committed for their health. Entire families, and friends and neighbors showed up!

To all of you THANK YOU! We are so happy and excited of being part of this and improve our lives together.